A week since announcing her bid for president, Vice President Kamala Harris has raised more than $200 million dollars, according to her campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To put that figure in perspective, it’s four times what the Biden re-election effort raised in the entire month of April. Former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign said he raised nearly $112 million in the month of June, Politico<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Harris campaign said 66% of the donations came from first-time donors. Along with fresh dollars, the campaign has signed up over 170,000 new volunteers since president Biden announced he would step down and endorsed her to be the Democratic nominee last Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That energy is much needed for the vice president who, as of Sunday, has just 100 days until voters hit the polls. This weekend alone, the Harris campaign has scheduled more than 2,000 events in swing states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The momentum and energy for Vice President Harris is real \u2013 and so are the fundamentals of this race: This election will be very close and decided by a small number of voters in just a few states,” the campaign\u2019s communications director, Michael Tyler, wrote in a memo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The vice president has already secured commitments<\/a> from enough democratic national convention delegates to lock up the nomination, with elected Democrats and grassroots groups rallying around her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n